This is Dale Jr., and you're listening to Dirty Mo Radio.

Welcome back to another episode of the Dale Jr. Download. This is Tyler Overstreet.

I'm joined by Dale Earnhardt Jr. on the phone. Hello Dale. Hey, how's it going?

It's going good. This is Episode 200. We've been building up for this for about five years.

So we have made it. Well, me and you've only been on here for about 30. I know,

but we're going to take credit for what all the work that our forefathers have done.

Oh, okay. Thank you to hopeless records for providing

today's steam song that was Catholic Girls by the Dangerous Summer. Let's get right in the Texas.

We finished 35th. I'll let you walk us through the weekend. Oh, yeah. Well,

the car was about, I don't know, the car was about 11 to 18th place all weekend.

In every practice, we were kind of 15th. It seemed like we couldn't make the car faster.

We could change the way it drove. We could make it tighter and looser and drive bad, drive good.

But we couldn't really make it faster. Yeah, so it was a little frustrating from that standpoint.

Not really being able to find more speed. We ran really good there earlier this year. So I was,

you know, thinking the car would drive better than it did. But I knew we were probably not

going to be as fast as we wanted to be because we just haven't been able to keep up with the other

manufacturers. So once we got into the race, yeah, the car was okay. We just, you know,

I could keep like, you know, 5th, 8th place right in front of me. We would run around 12th to 16th

for most of the day. And, you know, if we got the track position, I think we had a good car

that could have ran into top 10 or finished into top 10. But we were running along there and

burn up the left front hub. And basically how that happens is there's just so much pressure

on the outer barren on the, and it's a small bearing, but there's a lot of, with that camber

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